Trump state-run media proposal echos similar proposal by Mike Pence when he was Indiana Governor

President Donald Trump is floating a political trial balloon for potentially launching a government-run media outlet that, if launched, would serve as a taxpayer-funded, pro-Trump propaganda outlet that would be comparable to, for example, state-run media in authoritarian dictatorships like North Korea:

President Trump on Monday suggested the government start its own television network as he voiced frustration with the way CNN in particular has covered his administration.

"Throughout the world, CNN has a powerful voice portraying the United States in an unfair and false way. Something has to be done, including the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

It's important to note that Trump is already the beneficiary of pro-Trump propaganda from a segment of the corporate media, including Fox News, Sinclair-owned television stations, and right-wing talk radio. Furthermore, the federal government already provides taxpayer money to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television network and the public radio network National Public Radio (NPR), both of which are aimed at a domestic audience and mostly air programs that typically would not air at all or not air in the U.S. if all U.S. television was commercial television, as well as to Voice of America (VOA), an international radio broadcaster funded by U.S. taxpayers and aimed at an audience outside the United States. However, PBS, NPR, and VOA are not intended to serve as mediums for broadcasting propaganda glorifying the sitting President of the United States like, for example, how North Korea's state-run media glorifies North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

This isn't the first time someone who is currently in the Trump Administration floated the idea of creating a state-run propaganda arm:

Gov. Mike Pence killed his administration's plans for a state-run news service Thursday amid a national uproar that spurred ridicule for the idea across the political spectrum.

Pence announced in a memo to state agency heads that they would no longer be launching the JustIN website and that they would instead update the state's online press release system and state calendar.

"However well intentioned, after thorough review of the preliminary planning and careful consideration of the concerns expressed, I am writing you to inform you that I have made a decision to terminate development of the JustIN website immediately," Pence wrote.

You read that correctly. When he was Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence, who is now the Vice President of the United States, tried to launch a state-run political propaganda outlet in Indiana, but Pence abandoned his plans to do so after the people of Indiana realized how asinine such a concept is. If the people of Indiana can convince Pence to abandon his plan to launch a taxpayer-funded political propaganda outlet, then the people of the entire country can convince Trump to abandon his plan for a taxpayer-funded political propaganda outlet.